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Twenty-five years ago we started Modern Times with a $300 budget for ‘The Conquest’ at Toronto’s first Fringe Festival in 1989. This year, the staff and Board of Modern Times would like to take a look back and acknowledge all the people that made this company and its work possible over the years. We’d like to enjoy this milestone with you in many ways. This October we’ll be having an anniversary party at Buddies-in-Bad-Times Theatre to honour all our artistic collaborators over the years (there are more than 300 of you!).
We’ve got a new website too, a completely new look for our company, and many, many retrospectives on the way. Alumni, supporters, audience members, sponsors, staff members will be sharing candid stories, tales of productions and looking back on what Modern Times means to them.
This season we’ll be doing more of what we love: creating new work, travelling with our productions and dreaming of future projects. On tour in Denmark in December 2014 is our production of 'Forgiveness', and we are creating a brand new production of Lorca’s 'Blood Wedding' set for March 2015. We’re happy to still be here, and we hope you’re happy to still have us around!
Calling All Modern Times’ Alumni
Help us build our archives during our 25th anniversary season. Do you have photos to share, old design notes, Modern Times memorabilia, or just a story you’d like to share? If so, please Facebook or write us to help us record our history throughout the year. Even if it’s just to say ‘hello’, we’d love to reconnect with you.
'Forgiveness' on the Road to Aarhus, Denmark
The second half of our international co-production with Denmark will take place on December 10 and 11th, 2014. The cast of ‘Forgiveness’ will reunite for two shows in Aarhus, Denmark in the large space of Bora Bora Dance and Visual Theatre, the first leg of many voyages to follow for the production.
First Explorations of Blood Wedding
Work has already begun on our major production this season of ‘Blood Wedding’. Presented by Modern Times in co-production with Aluna Theatre, this classic work by Federico Garcia Lorca will be presented at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in March 2015. With casting complete over the summer, we were able to host our entire team for a two-week development workshop between August 26 – September 7. Our final rehearsal period begins in February.
2014-09-19
Toronto: Modern Times Stage Company celebrates its 25th anniversary